Around 1,000 people took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday for a gay pride march as participants demanded equal rights in a country where same sex marriage remains illegal. Supporters of Bucharest Pride, an event celebrating diversity and the LGBTI community, want to overturn a constitutional ban on same sex unions.But they face opposition after several NGOs linked to the Orthodox Church and united under the umbrella Coalition for Family last month brought a three million-strong petition to block same-sex unions in the EU member state which defines marriage as the “union between a man and a woman”.